Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rye

3 senses of rye

Sense 1
rye -- (the seed of the cereal grass)
       => grain, caryopsis -- (dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn)

Sense 2
rye, Secale cereale -- (hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement)
       => cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Sense 3
rye, rye whiskey, rye whisky -- (whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt)
       => whiskey, whisky -- (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)